I understand the tiger preference with Anand, after all they do have tigers in India. But crocodile-Carlsen?? We don't have crocodiles in Norway. José Diaz has always portrayed Carlsen as a viking. Why stop? Am I missing something??? I mean, if anything, why not a polar bear???

In an interview Carlsen answered the question what animal he would like to be if he hadn't been himself with: A crocodile. He just lies around and eats everything that passes by. That explains the use of the crocodile in this great cartoon.

However in the wild even though the crocodile is happy to lunch on anything that he can grab in the water he does not threaten tigers on land. He will however steal the tiger's food if he leaves it for a moment. There is a video or a series of photos that caught an unfortunate giant crocodile too far away from the water - he became cat food.

carlsen actually has simply disappeared. he hasn't given any interview yet. he is shockingly not interested in anybody or anything except himself.

this young man is simply a lout, I'm sorry to say.
judging from what could be read little Magnus has always been allowed to do what he wanted, mummy and daddy have been ever so proud letting him do anything - no wonder he behaves the way he does (now, at press conferences...) - he simply doesn't want to talk about chess ... he feels no obligation or any decent understanding of the world outside himself ....

there is a friendly word for this ... NARCISSISM
there is also a more realistic pathological word for this ....

LOL - If players take a breath between the end of such a match and the final ceremony, instead of giving proud interviews, you call that narcissm???

The only rude and uneducated people, whose mummys and daddy must have done a bad job according to your funny kitchen psychology, seem to be some of the slightly disordered kind which you can meet in this forum.

I thought when he said Crocodile was his favorite animal, Magnus wanted to convey a hidden but known message. Crocodile does not have to kill its prey by itself, just eat of what is killed or half-killed(wounded) by others.

Yes, Carlsen is a crocodile - an ambush predator. Many critics of his on this site find this blameworthy and illegitimate, and they want to deny him his laurels because he's not chasing his prey down in dramatic cheetah like fashion. I say they should learn to broaden the scope of what they understand and appreciate.

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